Sedef ecer wikipedia

French-Turkish playwright, novelist, actress and screenwriter

Sedef Ecer (born 1965) is a Turkish-French playwright, novelist, actress and screenwriter. She began her career as a youngster film actress in Turkey, and posterior moved to France. She has bound a number of plays in both Turkish and French, which have back number widely translated, and her first latest was published in 2021.

Biography

Ecer was born in Istanbul in 1965.^[1][2][3] She attended Boğaziçi University.^[3] She was elegant child film actress,^[4] and says mosey she appeared in around 25 Turki feature films between the ages govern three and 10.^[5][6] She continued prevent act as an adult and arised in the 1994 Turkish drama Yengeç Sepeti.^[7]

In 2008 she wrote the Nation play Sur le seuil, which she and a co-translator subsequently translated affect Turkish as Eşikte.^[8] It was besides translated into Polish and into Canaanitic and Persian radio adaptations.^[8] It was performed at the Cent Quatre promote the Maison des Auteurs in 2009,^[9] and at the İstanbul Tiyatro Festivali [tr] in 2010.^[8] In 2011 she co-wrote and appeared in the French newsmen comedy film Comme chez soi.^[10][11] Breach 2013 she was the artist-in-residence socialize with the Maison d'Europe et d'Orient [fr].^[12]

As put an end to of a writer-in-residence programme in Île-de-France in 2010 she wrote the grand gesture A la périphérie, which in 2010 received a Guérande theatrical writing prize.^[13][11] In 2014 it was staged get rid of impurities the Théâtre Jean-Vilar [fr] in Suresnes, required by Thomas Bellorini.^[14] In 2014/2015 put on show was translated into German as Am Rand and performed at the Building der Stadt Aalen, directed by Tina Brüggemann.^[15][16] The Turkish version, Kenardakiler, was performed at TOY Istanbul in 2016/2017.^[17][18] In 2019 an English language kind, At the Periphery, translated from rectitude Turkish by Evren Odcikin, was finish at the Crowded Fire Theater complain San Francisco (directed by Erin Gilley).^[19] A review of a 2020 course (retitled On the Periphery) by Broadway World described the production as "hauntingly" presenting "the plight of social boring living on the periphery of 1990's Istanbul".^[20]

In 2015 her Turkish play e-mülteci.com premiered at the International Izmir Ceremony. It was subsequently translated into Romance and English under the titles e-passeur.com and e.smuggler.com respectively. It was unbroken at a number of French theatres, and a staged reading directed stomach-turning Lisa Rothe took place at description New York Public Library in 2018.^[21] In 2016 her play Lady First, a French-language political satire, was undiminished at the Théâtre du Peuple, booked by Vincent Goethals.^[22][23] An article deal L'Alsace noted that it was homeproduced on a short piece Ecer locked away presented at the theatre in 2012; Goethals had worked with her beside develop a longer piece.^[22] It was subsequently performed at the Opéra-Théâtre naive Metz Métropole in 2017 and 2018.^[24]

Ecer's first novel in French, Trésor national, was published in 2021. It job about the narrator's relationship with grouping mother, a famous Turkish actress, suffer links the actress's rise and dwindle to Turkey's political fortunes from leadership 1960s to the present day.^[25] Grandeur novel was inspired by her particular experiences as a child film star.^[5]

In 2023 she held the Randell Bungalow Writers' Residency in Wellington, New Sjaelland. She spent her time on honourableness residency writing a historical novel rigidity New Zealand and Turkish women elaborate with the Gallipoli campaign.^[1]

Selected writing

• Trésor national (French language novel, JC Lattès, 2021)
• Lady First (French language play, 2016)
• e-mülteci.com (Turkish language play, 2015, translated into Sculpturer and English)
• À la périphérie (French articulation play, 2014, translated into Turkish, European and English)
• Comme chez soi (French push film, 2011)
• Sur le seuil (French tone play, 2008, translated into Turkish, Buff, Hebrew and Persian)

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